Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security. The dangers have been becoming apparent for a generation. Now the facts have started to speak: 11 of the past 14 years have been the warmest on record, the Arctic ice-cap is melting and last year’s inflamed oil and food prices provide a foretaste of future havoc. In scientific journals the question is no longer whether humans are to blame, but how little time we have got left to limit the damage. Yet so far the world’s response has been feeble and half-hearted.
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Falling Awake 
Well, in my lifetime i have seen plenty of historical, almost lifechanging events, my dad probably even more. Keywords are “prosperity and security”, this is what it about. Not respect for life.
The gravity of all these discussions can easily be shown by asking simple questions like:
1. When did you drive your car to the junkyard?
2. Have you reduced airtravel?
3. How many solar cells are on your roof?
4. Have you multiplied?
Let’s say it like it is: WE ARE SCARED.